In Greek mythology, Cranaus or Kranaos (/ˈkræni.əs/;[1]Ancient Greek: Κραναός) was the second King of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I. Cranaus married Pedias, a Spartan woman and daughter of Mynes, with whom he had three daughters: Cranaë, Cranaechme, and Atthis.
[2] Atthis gave her name to Attica after dying, possibly as a young girl,[3] although in other traditions she was the mother, by Hephaestus, of Erichthonius.
[4] Cranaus was supposed to have reigned for either nine or ten years and was an autochthon (born from the earth), like his predecessor.
In some accounts, Deucalion was said to have fled Lycorea to Athens with his sons Hellen and Amphictyon.
[8] The people of Attica were referred to as Kranaoi[9] after Cranaus, and Athens as Kranaa[10] or Kranaai.